The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1887-09-25
THELILLIE HOYLE MYSTERY.
GROfING IN THE DARK IN TEN II
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| Ne One Even Ruspr ctea 0f Aceempffsnfnu
her Rui. and Denth-nHer Uneio and s,ster
| Believed to be Abio to Furnish . else.
WORCESTER, Sept. 2i.--Although the ONE
cers who are working very industriously on
the case OF tho murdered Lille Hoyle OF Web
ster profess TO DO thoroughly satisfied that
Dixon II. Cowie. her uncle. Is an Innocent man.
| q majority OF the residents OF the town are
| two-thirds convinced that the cluo which wtlt
| lead to the detection Of tho murderers Will bo
found In Cowio's house. There the murdered
| girl lived with her sister Alice, and from there.
she was going whom last seen alive. picE
| Cowie IL man who likes his beer. He had
been in q beer shop the night the girl disap-l
penrcd. and his chum was waiting for him %
the outside. II Lille was abducted, and
that fact Is reasonably well established, It wa
| dono by some one who know her habits thoxs
ouchly. No one knew them better than Cowies
unless 1t was her sister, for In the house With
| him sho had lived for four yenrs. and man
who was not pressed for opportunity would
have nevor thought Of selecting such night.
Tho moon was near tho full, md the streets al
about were well lighted. Even Cowie. stupid
| Is he at times appears to DO, would not have
thought OF selectlns such a night but for one
reason. His wife was away, and any un-a
usual noise about the house would have
excited her inauisitiveness. and beefi
very likely to lead to an Immediate
Investigation. She was to be gone . few DAYS 1
only, and unless there was storm tho weather3
beiore nor return. II the girl was to be sb.
dasled the ehGneee for s', G, we're bette
House, in tho rear OF which the first scene Of (
WAS as S
from impradUnee StS gentleman friend. and
this IL accepted rs evidence that l!e was know,
eonsiaerabie Of u disturbance would not % !
crime lie i beloved to pe Enoyins 70 fact, o.
Ns nyseS s y .hs y
people WHO know them both, a suspicious look
There was nothing in common between them.
panlon to share his bed unless through fear
that there might be occasion for i hnYinE VT
wHqf d at s Tie t. time e !hs
That he was there the officers profess
bsFs w Mtnsss IN Tasn out
Rsaf DETECTED : the s Question shs towns Pc.
ed2sP he tie wssn liz
says hiE% inns he didthst the girl had gSns
was knowing TO the fact that something which
s$qs Sns SssSs
even clue worth following ts due to the fec1
disappeared. It is hard to ind any one who viii
accuse Dick Cowie Of being direct party TO-
ns tnaans hs s scs s the Sss h1 e
ular was to be attempted Is rapidly crystalliz-
That Alice Hoyie has not told all she knows Il
CHARGES Alice with coneealinE ,anyt6ins; sic
@ S Death sfs 30 sister, G The %
is readily accepted as the Reason Why Sic has
the sa ss the anSos child II shs
tectiyes are searching. His discovery. they arc
m;sssss w Sna e sk ors III ss ss
Aes + + believed the first Glue that VII lead
xr Who %as e q
the men. women. and chileren in the town. has
never been It,; seen with any man under circIm.
they had st
state detectives the most mysterious case Ia
The TACT OF the murder IS established 90.
ALSO is the motive for the murder; and yet tho \
body was not concesIed ' in the ' Corn crib The
night OF the murder is no longer questioned. n
sms 6ens mao sR WS
IOI assisting Tue RlrI, or IN lorclnR u0r 20 81
submit to. an operation. was q man. OF
T M s assss.t.s ;se Sh p, wasR
In tho crime WIS not sufficient reason for
silence, and to hire them to hide the body after q
he had put thousands OF miles between him.
self and his victim. No man who had head
enough to plan such q piece OF work would
think Of attempting TO put the body In -
tum bled-down barn. with the night almost -
light as day. One man or two men could
not carry the body OF a girl weighing 40 i
pounds from the highway q dozen rods 4
across a field, Of which there Is an un-
obstructed view from well-travelled high-
way In both directions without great danger
q attracting attention. and II is believed that
tho attempt to produce q miscarriage was
made until the one most interested In the suc@
CESS OF the operation was vol out Of the reach
Of the officers. There Is talk that a prominent n
man OF the town had been on terms Il
0f Intimacy WI tn the girl for some time, butt
little credence 10 given to this. for Lille never
had money to any amount. nor did she recetvosI
presents Of any value. 93
1t is reported tonight that a new clue hn4
been discovered. The story is that severaxsI
days after the murder wagon was seen neaf q
the old corn crib and that a man was seen
CARRYING a heavy burden through the feld& =
the wagon are known. but TINT no trace 81
them has been found since they were seen al
tho place where the body was found. The of1<<
GERS pretend to know nothing Of such O clue./
and 1t Is generally dscredited.
As Clever rs Three.csrd Monte.